Genre Archive

Flash Prose

Issue 26: Winter/Spring 2025

No Beco dos Ramos: Alfama and Queer Love as Resistance

November 6, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2025 / Marina Carreira

The Casualties

October 21, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2025 / Dan Garner

Luxury

September 7, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2025 / Andrew Graham Martin

Grief Is a Question

August 8, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2025 / Kiely Todd Roska

The Aquarium

July 2, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2025 / Anna Stacy

Garbage Bags

June 8, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2025 / Stephyne Weathersby

Issue 25: Summer/Fall 2024

Mujer de la Luna / Moon Woman

May 4, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2024 / Sarah Chavera Edwards

Sweet Tooth

May 3, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2024 / Melissa Fitzpatrick

You and a Guest Will Fly Round-Trip Coach from Los Angeles to Beautiful Maui

May 3, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2024 / Sarah Freligh

Flight 800

April 3, 2024/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2024 / Kathryn Kulpa

Issue 24: Winter/Spring 2024

Irreconcilable Differences

November 23, 2023/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2024 / Glenn Orgias

Issue 23: Summer/Fall 2023

The Last House on the Left

May 28, 2023/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2023 / John Haggerty

A lasting transformation

May 27, 2023/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2023 / DJ Hills

The Grand Calabaza

May 26, 2023/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2023 / Diego Ulibarri

Issue 22: Winter/Spring 2023

Our Castle

November 20, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2023 / Christine H. Chen

The Deserters

November 19, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2023 / Kyrié Eleison

Holding Hands

November 13, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2023 / Anam Raheem

Issue 21: Summer/Fall 2022

Queering Eden

June 5, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2022 / Alexandra Corinth

Sardines

June 4, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2022 / Brian Katz

The Fight

June 3, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2022 / Keith J. Powell

Comments Made to a Mother of Girls

June 2, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2022 / Lilly Roan

Always Waiting, Always Here

May 31, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2022 / Analía Villagra

Issue 20: Winter/Spring 2022

One Night Only

December 3, 2021/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2022 / Brett Biebel

The Pond

December 2, 2021/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2022 / Jorge Torrente Cabrera

Consent Training

December 1, 2021/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2022 / Minna Dubin

Cicadas

December 1, 2021/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2022 / Eliot Li

Gracie

November 30, 2021/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2022 / Linda McMullen

Coexistence

November 30, 2021/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2022 / Amber Wozniak

Issue 19: Summer/Fall 2021

Ultramodern Love Or, Romance Near the Singularity

May 18, 2021/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2021 / Soramimi Hanarejima

Stud

May 17, 2021/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2021 / Jean-Luke Swanepoel

Issue 18: Winter/Spring 2021

Under the Big Tree / In the Wings

December 7, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Kate Angus

I Am Going to Share a Secret With You

December 6, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Aditi Bhattacharjee

Playthings

December 5, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Bailey Bujnosek

June/ My iPhone Died Three Years Ago and I’m Still Not Over It

December 4, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Annette Covrigaru

Wordscapes

December 3, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Rukmini Kalamangalam

Help

December 2, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Suzanne LaFetra Collier

Gravel

December 1, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Rachel Laverdiere

By Morning / Person, Place and Thing

November 30, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Colette Parris

La Violencia

November 28, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Connie Pertuz-Meza

Issue 17: Summer/Fall 2020

Ash Wednesday

June 13, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Janet Albaugh

Shedding

June 12, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Karen Bowers

Casual Contact

June 11, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Alfred Fournier

It Happened at 4:32 pm After Daylight Savings

June 10, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Angie Kang

Thickly Settled / Flight Risk

June 9, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Laura S. Marshall

Necessary Shadows / Flowercrackers / Empty Stomach Full Belly

June 8, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Vikram Ramakrishnan

Before the Shrine of My Fermentation Cabinet

June 7, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Hannah Suchor

Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020

Two Ways

November 30, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Antonia Angress

Doll Code

November 30, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Amy Lyons

Hematophogous Creatures

November 30, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Melinda Bezdek

Rowboat

November 30, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Josh Krigman

The First One

November 30, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Matthew Mastricova

Everything In Its Right Place

November 21, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Emily James

Rainbow’s End

November 21, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Och Gonzalez

The Habits of Great Predators

November 21, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Michael Schoch

Pinned Butterflies

November 18, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Jenn Powers

Issue 15: Summer/Fall 2019

Bread

May 31, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Genevieve Abravanel

Like the Fourth Finger of My Left Hand

May 29, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Laura English

A Mountain of Invertebrates

May 28, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Christopher Gonzalez

Patty Cakes

May 27, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Richard Graddis

A Compendium of Earthquakes

May 25, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Hope Henderson

Upward Snow

May 24, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Whitney Lee

Camellias in Black and Gray

May 18, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Danielle Batalion Ola

Trust Me, Iago

May 16, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Kevin Tasker

Issue 14: Winter/Spring 2019

How to Brew Tea for a Funeral

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 / by J.M. Ellison

Plastic

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Corey Farrenkopf

Magic

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Jose Francisco Fonseca

O’er the Fields

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Andie Francis

The Boy Who Loved Red Bishops Too Much

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Raj M. Isaac

Butterfly

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Sanjana Raghavan

The Four Walls

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 / by D.H. Valdez

Issue 13: Summer/Fall 2018

Mardi Gras Beads

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Janice Dvorak

Claws

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Allison Wyss

How to Love Your Child Without Your Neighbor Reporting You to Child Services

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Christopher Allen

Picking Out Bananas

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Jeff Hoffmann

The Earth From Afar

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Alyssa Proujansky

A Reckoning

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Janelle M. Williams

Mean Streets

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Craig Fishbane

Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018

Eating the Leaves

November 25, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Amanda J. Bermudez

Unreliable Objects

November 25, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Laurie Granieri

Lookin’

November 24, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 / by E. Dolores Johnson

The Girl Who Will Fly

November 23, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Lauren Kosa

You Will be Saved

November 23, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Jonaki Ray

Getting Away

November 21, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Matthew Sarookanian

Spark

November 19, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Kari Treese

When My Mother Held the Sears Door Open for Me

November 17, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Sarah Broussard Weaver

Hard Winter

November 16, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Laura Young

Issue 11: Summer/Fall 2017

She Is a Battleground

May 20, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Nancy Au

Sleight of Hand

May 19, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Stephen Baily

Disco

May 18, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Tim Fitts

Switzerland

May 17, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Susan Goldstein

1964

May 16, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Claire T. Lawrence

Bitch-not-Witch

May 15, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Jay Merill

The Walt Longmire of IT Guys

May 14, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by John Meyers

The Blessed Bangle

May 13, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Rudy Ravindra

Walmart Holiday Shopping

May 12, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Judith Roney

Screaming in the Heisenberg Wind

May 11, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by K.D. Rose

Scrap Art

May 10, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Deborah Thompson

Blan-Manzhe with the Taste of Pear and Cream

May 9, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Olga Zilberbourg

Issue 10: Winter/Spring 2017

Cyclone: a biography of inheritance

December 6, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Rowan Bassman

Passage

November 30, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Hugo dos Santos

Smoke and Mirrors

November 29, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Brent Fisk

Trouble with GobbledUp

November 28, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by KJ Hannah Greenberg

Lily

November 27, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Marie Marandola

Now Serving Fresh-Baked Cookies

November 26, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Erica Gerald Mason

The Temperature of Islands

November 25, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Catherine McNamara

Emoticon

November 24, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Ellen Birkett Morris

Impasse

November 24, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Eshani Surya

Do You Think I’m Beautiful

November 23, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Cathy Ulrich

Bikini Wax

November 19, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Tara Isabel Zambrano

Issue 9: Summer/Fall 2016

At the End of Hope

May 7, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Jesi Bender

Remember, Remember

May 6, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Carol Caffrey

Centaur

May 5, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Dawn S. Davies

Bases Covered

May 4, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Jaimie Eubanks

Cloud Glitches

May 3, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 / S. Kay

a little saw

May 2, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Monique Quintana

Issue 8: Winter/Spring 2016

Lifted

December 6, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Carmella de los Angeles Guiol

Eternally, Jane

December 5, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Virginia Elizabeth Hayes

Bats in the Attic

December 4, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Dana Mele

(the danger of becoming small)

October 27, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 / by G.G. Silverman

Rivka

October 22, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Tessa Yang

Issue 7: Summer/Fall 2015

Wreckage

May 30, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Garrett Biggs

Catcher

May 29, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Rob Alexander

Plastic Cups & Burnt Snow

May 28, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 / by James R. Gapinski

I’m Beautiful

May 27, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Damyanti Ghosh

We’re So Lucky

May 26, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Shasta Grant

The Known Unknowns

May 25, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Gabriel Houck

Issue 6: Winter/Spring 2015

Come Spring & Articulation

November 23, 2014/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Barbara Harroun

Issue 5: Summer/Fall 2014

Perry and Vega

May 30, 2014/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Anthony Martin

Did You Know That Witches Speak With Their Vaginas?

May 29, 2014/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Dana Green

Issue 4: Winter/Spring 2014

Run All Day, Run All Night

November 28, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Katie Cortese

We’ll vanish in a blind spot portal

November 27, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Michelle McMahon

Snow

November 26, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Jesse Paul Padilla

Superman

November 25, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Alma Luz Villanueva

Issue 3: Summer/Fall 2013

Christ v.

May 25, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Mark Maynard

Driving with Fire Sauce

May 24, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Peter Clarke

Letter of Resignation

May 23, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Kenneth Nichols

Mad Dog

May 20, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 / by DJ Swykert

The Fur of My Insecurities

May 20, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Ursula Villarreal-Moura

Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Gale Naylor

Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Mitko Grigorov

Mother-to-Mother: An Open Letter about White Privilege and Fragility

November 22, 2024/in Blog / Dr. Valerie Nyberg

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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna

On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Ariadne Will

Disappear Where? A Meditation on the Lost and Getting Lost

November 1, 2024/in Midnight Snack / Reid Delehanty

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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / translated from French by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes

Fourberie

May 2, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Terese Coe

Vernacular

April 18, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Mary Morris

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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk

A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail

Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran

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